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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994
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.\" @(#)finger.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 5/5/94
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.Dd January 21, 2010
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.Dt FINGER 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm finger
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.Nd user information lookup program
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl 46gklmpsho
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.Op Ar user ...\&
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.Op Ar user@host ...\&
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility displays information about the system users.
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.Pp
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Options are:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl 4
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Forces
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.Nm
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to use IPv4 addresses only.
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.It Fl 6
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Forces
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.Nm
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to use IPv6 addresses only.
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.It Fl s
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Display the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write
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status (as a ``*'' before the terminal name if write permission is
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denied), idle time, login time, and either office location and office
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phone number, or the remote host.
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If
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.Fl o
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is given, the office location and office phone number is printed
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(the default).
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If
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.Fl h
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is given, the remote host is printed instead.
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.Pp
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Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes
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if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present.
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If it is an
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.Dq * ,
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the login time indicates the time of last login.
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Login time is displayed as the day name if less than 6 days, else month, day;
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hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year
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is displayed rather than the hours and minutes.
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.Pp
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Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are
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displayed as single asterisks.
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.It Fl h
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When used in conjunction with the
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.Fl s
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option, the name of the remote host is displayed instead of the office
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location and office phone.
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.It Fl o
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When used in conjunction with the
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.Fl s
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option, the office location and office phone information is displayed
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instead of the name of the remote host.
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.It Fl g
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This option restricts the gecos output to only the users' real
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name.
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It also has the side-effect of restricting the output
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of the remote host when used in conjunction with the
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.Fl h
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option.
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.It Fl k
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Disable all use of the user accounting database.
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.It Fl l
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Produce a multi-line format displaying all of the information
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described for the
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.Fl s
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option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login
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shell, mail status, and the contents of the files
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.Pa .forward ,
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.Pa .plan ,
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.Pa .project
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and
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.Pa .pubkey
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from the user's home directory.
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.Pp
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If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
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presented in the form ``hh:mm''.
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Idle times greater than a day are presented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''.
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.Pp
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Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''.
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Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate
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subset of that string.
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Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.
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Numbers specified as four digits are printed as ``xNNNN''.
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.Pp
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If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)''
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is appended to the line containing the device name.
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One entry per user is displayed with the
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.Fl l
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option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information
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is repeated once per login.
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.Pp
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Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all, ``Mail
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last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their
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mailbox since new mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'', ``Unread
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since ...'' if they have new mail.
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.It Fl p
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Prevent
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the
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.Fl l
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option of
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.Nm
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from displaying the contents of the
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.Pa .forward ,
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.Pa .plan ,
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.Pa .project
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and
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.Pa .pubkey
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files.
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.It Fl m
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Prevent matching of
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.Ar user
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names.
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.Ar User
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is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the
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users' real names, unless the
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.Fl m
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option is supplied.
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All name matching performed by
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.Nm
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is case insensitive.
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.El
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.Pp
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If no options are specified,
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.Nm
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defaults to the
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.Fl l
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style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the
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.Fl s
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style.
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Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information
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is not available for them.
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.Pp
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If no arguments are specified,
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.Nm
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will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility may be used to look up users on a remote machine.
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The format is to specify a
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.Ar user
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as
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.Dq Li user@host ,
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or
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.Dq Li @host ,
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where the default output
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format for the former is the
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.Fl l
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style, and the default output format for the latter is the
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.Fl s
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style.
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The
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.Fl l
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option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine.
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.Pp
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If the file
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.Pa .nofinger
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exists in the user's home directory,
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and the program is not run with superuser privileges,
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.Nm
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behaves as if the user in question does not exist.
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.Pp
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The optional
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.Xr finger.conf 5
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configuration file can be used to specify aliases.
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Since
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.Nm
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is invoked by
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.Xr fingerd 8 ,
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aliases will work for both local and network queries.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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The
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.Nm
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utility utilizes the following environment variable, if it exists:
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.Bl -tag -width Fl
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.It Ev FINGER
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This variable may be set with favored options to
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.Nm .
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /var/log/utx.lastlogin -compact
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.It Pa /etc/finger.conf
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alias definition data base
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.It Pa /var/log/utx.lastlogin
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last login data base
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chpass 1 ,
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.Xr w 1 ,
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.Xr who 1 ,
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.Xr finger.conf 5 ,
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.Xr fingerd 8
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.Rs
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.%A D. Zimmerman
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.%T The Finger User Information Protocol
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.%R RFC 1288
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.%D December, 1991
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.Re
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 3.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Nm
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utility does not recognize multibyte characters.
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